In June 1959 UVa hired the architectural firm Joseph Saunders & Associates of Alexandria to produce a plan for the construction of George Mason College. The firm’s August 1960 report presented the entire concept of the ...

Classes began at the new University College in 1957 in a temporary building while a permanent site was being chosen. To satisfy this immediate need, an offer was made by the Fairfax County Schools to lease a recently-abandoned ...

In this film George Mason College Director, Robert Reid, is taking a group of citizens on a tour of the unfinished campus. The tour begins in the North Building (today's Finley Building) and continues around the exterior ...

Photograph of the original George Mason College building from the south. This building was the former Bailey’s Crossroads School built in 1922. Parking for students, faculty, and staff was on this side of the building ...

Photograph of the original George Mason College building from the north facing Columbia Pike (Route 244). This building had eight rooms. Note the modified sign, which previously read: University of Virginia University ...

Photograph of Ravensworth Farm. The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors rejected the offer of this property for fear of possible noise pollution from a planned nearby airport. This image was part of promotional ...

Photograph of one of the buildings on the Ravensworth Farm property. A caption on the back of the original reads: “Romanesque Barn to be Converted for Classroom Use.” George Mason University Facilities Planning

Photograph of A. Smith Bowman, Jr. (standing) and E. DeLong Bowman (seated in foreground). The Bowman brothers, executives of the A. Smith Bowman Distillery, made two offers of land and money (in 1954 and 1957) to UVa ...

Photograph of Director J.N.G. Finley and some of the key persons from Town of Fairfax who, at the last minute, helped acquire the Farr property in 1958, securing a permanent home for George Mason University. This sign was ...

Detail from aerial photograph of the Farr tract and its surroundings. Route 123 can be seen at left. Braddock Road (Route 620) at bottom. The initial buildings of George Mason College’s Fairfax Campus were built in the ...

Architectural drawings of Building A (today’s Finley Building) from the 1960 George Mason College Master Plan showing north, south, and east elevations by Saunders and Pearson Architects, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1960. ...

Floor plans for Buildings A-E from 1960 George Mason College Master Plan by Saunders and Pearson Architects, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1960. This drawing details planned space use on the first floor in each building ...

Architect’s rendering of George Mason College’s original four buildings and proposed Lecture Hall from 1960 George Mason College Master Plan by Saunders and Pearson Architects, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1960. George ...

Letter from University of Virginia President, Colgate W. Darden, Jr., to J.N.G. Finley, Director of Northern Virginia Center (and University College). This letter, in which Darden thanks Finley for mailing him a news ...

Detail from the Map of N. Eastern Virginia and Vicinity of Washington compiled in Topographical Engineers Office at Division Head Quarters Of General Irvin McDowell Arlington, January 1st 1862 showing the Farr property as ...

Architect’s rendering of view of “The Court” (the space in the center of the buildings) from the vantage point of the west entrance of Building B, today’s Krug Hall. From the 1960 George Mason College Master Plan by ...